Carding-machine



(No Model.)

G. BERNHART.

GARDING MACHINE.

INVENTOR V Patented Feb. 7,1882.

Fries. I

ATENT GEORGE BERNHART, OF AMANA, IOWA.

CARDlNGyMACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,260, dated February7, 1882. Application filed April 14, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE BERNHART, ofAmana, in the county of Iowa and State of Iowa, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Gaming-Machines; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as y are mixed with the newwool. With these ends in view my invention consists in certain detailsof construction and combinations of parts, as will be more fullyexplained, and pointed out in the claims.

Inthe accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical section ofthe finisher and second breaker-card and theiradjunctive parts with myimprovement attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a view of the shaft and rollsthat drive the conveyer. Fig. 3 is a view of the fifth worker of thesecond breaker-card. Fig. 4 is an end View of one of the hangers, 01 andFig. 5 is a view of the shaft supporting the rear end of theconveyer-belts.

A represents the main cylinder of the finishingcard, which, togetherwith the second breaker-card, is furnished with the usual feedrolls, A,one licker-in, A, one tumbler, A four workers, A, and four strippers, Aone fancy, A, while the finisher-card A is provided with tworing-doffers, B B, and a rub with two sets of rub-rolls, O O, and thesecond breaker with only one doffer, J.

D is a shaft journaled in the bearings D, mounted on arches, whichsupport the rubrolls of finisher'card, said shaft having twogrooved-faced rollers, ac, secured thereto near each end, around whichthe endless conveyers pass. This shaft is also provided with a pulley,b, on one end thereof, around which a driving-belt, 0, passes, thelatter extending down and around the driving-pulley E, the latter beingsecured to a shaft having a cog-wheel thereon, which meshes with acorresponding wooden hangers cl, attached to the ceiling.'-

These hangers d are made of wood, and are provided with extra slots,into which the rollers are inserted when the conveyor-belts becomeloose. These hangers have been found to answer the best purpose, becausethey require no lubrication, and flying wool does not affect them. Theconveyers F, after passing upward from the finisher-card, run in ahorizontal direction for some distance, and are then deflected downward,so as to deposit the fillets of waste or end rovin gs onto the laststripper of second breaker, or the one nearest the fancy. This stripper,which is a part of the second breaker, strips its worker, together withthe conveyer-belts, in the same manner that every stripper strips itsworker. The rear extremities of the conveyors immediately over thesecond breaker-card are supported on smoothfaced rollers G, said rollersbeing journaled on shaft H, which in turn has its bearing in adjustablestandards L, secured to the arches of the second breaker-card. Thisshaft H is revolved by the endless conveyers, and is provided with acam, g, at one side thereof, adapted to work in the bracket 1, securedto the ad justable standard L, the said bracket being provided with agrooved face in which the cam g works, and by which a lateral motion isimparted thereto which distributes the fibers of the waste rovingsevenly. These standards L are provided with slots, by which they arepivotally secured to the arches of the second breaker, and adjusted sothat the teeth of the conveyer-belts come close to the stripper, and

enable the stripper to take the wool quite clean from off the conveyer-belts.

I is the last stripper, or the one nearest the fancy, situated below theends of the convey ers, and adapted to take the end rovin gs therefromand deliver them to the second breakercard at about the same speed theyare delivered from the finisher-card, where they are worker situatedbelow said stripper, said worker having a girdle of card-clothingremoved from each end, which allows the rovin gs to pass uninterruptedto the doffer, where it is mixed with the new wool, substantially as setforth.

5. In a waste-roving conveyor for cardingmachines,the combinatiomwith afinisher-card and second breaker-card, of an endless conveyer oroonveyers provided with card-clothing on one face and supported abovethe said finisher and second breaker cards, adjustable hangers, rub-rollgearing of the finisher-card, and suitable mechanism by which thedesired motion is imparted to said conveyer, substantially as set forth.

6. In a waste-roving conveyer for cardingmachines, the combination, witha finisher and second breaker card, the endless conveyer, removable endshafts. therefor, and intermediate an annularnaked space around each endof the 0 fifth worker, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this29th day of March, 1881.

- GEORGE BERNHARI. In presence of-- CHAS. MOORSHEL, LEONHARD GRAF.

